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You forgot age.
And a Ferrari, depending upon your dreamsYou forgot age.
The first two situations are common enough that I tend to sleep through the events our sky was clear for
That's my house that is.
The first two situations are common enough that I tend to sleep through the events our sky was clear for
Note despite the hype, Lunar eclipses are seen about twice a year, & meteor shows of one type or another are more common still - between the two they must account for cloud cover for a fair bit of the year.
Perhaps I just expected more over the years but TBH, meteor showers are a bit meh, really. I mean, every now and again, a shooting star will go overhead but generally they are no more exciting than watching a bunch of Starlink satellites go over in a nice line. I did see one thing though, I think it was in 1972 or 73, I was stationed in Northern Ireland and the mother of all meteors lit the ground up like daylight as it went over; it was even mentioned on The Sky At Night by Patrick Moore.Know what you mean.
In over 60 years of being interested in astronomical events I have seen all the naked eye planets, various conjunctions, partial solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, sun pillars, sun dogs, star clusters and nebulae, the northern lights and three comets but, because of cloud cover, I have never seen a meteor shower!
Dave